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Mo Mo Mo Mo Impresses In Maiden Win

Posted Thursday, Jun 28, 2012

The racing office carded the first test for two-year-old New
Jersey-breds last Sunday (June 24) and it was Mo Mo Mo Mo who bested the other
seven juveniles in the field. Moreover, he fought back after losing the lead
around the far turn and showed some true grit while breaking his maiden in his
first outing.

“I’m very proud
of him,” said trainer David Nunn. “I’ve always thought highly of him and
expected good things from him, but you never know until the gate opens. He’s
going to get a little vacation and I’m pointing him to the Jersey Futurity (to
be added to the stakes schedule and be run here on October 6).”

The Diane
Boyken homebred is by Mo Mon and the Lyphard’s Ridge mare Silent Ridge. That
makes him a half-brother to Paisley
Park, who was trained by
Joe Pierce, Jr. during her three-year career (2002-04) here and was always
known for being extremely game.

“That mare (Silent
Ridge) did nothing but produce winners,” said Nunn, a former jockey who during
his career galloped horses for Hall of Famers LeRoy Jolley and Mack Miller.
Nunn also was the exercise rider for dual grade one winner Formal Gold, the
winner of the 1997 Grade 2 Iselin Handicap,
for longtime Monmouth horseman Bill Perry.

“In that Juvenile race that Mo Mo
Mo Mo won, four of the eight horses in the field were sired by Mo Mon,” said
Nunn. “Diane has bred a lot of nice horses. She had the stallion, but he died
last year. I’m happy to have this horse in my barn.”

Nunn has entered Withgreatpleasure,
the winner of her last two races in optional claiming allowance company at Parx
and Belmont, in Saturday’s $75,000 Lighthouse Stakes for fillies and mares
going one-mile-and-a-sixteenth on the main track.

When asked which of the horses he’s
trained has been his best, he replied, “That’s easy. It’s her.”